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2 guilty of rape
VANCOUVER - Ali Saadatmandi and Ali Tayyebi were each
charged with sexual assault - and Saadatmandi was
charged with administering a stupefying drug - after the
June 2005 incident involving the 18-year-old girl.
(Vancouver Province)
Beltran found guilty of rape
YSTAD
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Opera star
Tito Ernesto Beltran
has been sentenced to two
years in jail by Ystad District Court for the rape of an
18-year-old nanny in 1999. (The Local)
Teen makes surprise guilty plea
MONTREAL - A serial rapist apologized in Youth Court
yesterday to the women he sexually assaulted and their
families, saying he was sorry for the hurt he had
caused. In all, the 18-year-old man was accused of
sexually assaulting 11 women. His name cannot be
published because he was a minor when he committed the
crimes. (Montreal Gazette)
Accused kills himself
ST. JOHN’S
- A man
who was to stand trial Tuesday in St. John's on
kidnapping and sexual assault charges has killed
himself. Darren Joseph Fagan, 37, was found dead at Her
Majesty's Penitentiary, in the east end of St. John's.
(CBC)
We've lost track of sex offenders
VANCOUVER -
The case of Steven James Petiquan illustrates just a few
of the reasons why Canada's sex offender registry has
been called everything from "useless" to "a sham." Last
summer, the convicted sex offender from Abbotsford
decided to take a trip to Calgary. Petiquan, 31, didn't
tell authorities about it. The law says he doesn't have
to for trips of less than two weeks. (Vancouver
Province)
Ex-con charged with assault
CALGARY - A man who was convicted of sexually assaulting
a woman at a tanning salon in 2002 has been charged with
an eerily similar crime. Marcel Joseph Parent, 30, has
been charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous
purpose, sexual assault with a weapon, robbery and
unlawful confinement after a woman was attacked at
knifepoint at a northwest Calgary tanning salon.
(Calgary Herald)
C.W. Jeffreys
officials face charges
TORONTO -
Police have charged the former principal and two
vice-principals at C.W. Jeffreys Collegiate with failing
to report an alleged sexual assault on a female
student. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
CW Jefferys officials
face child act charges
4 charged in Jefferys sex case:
4 charged in CW Jefferys sex assault
Man serving time for gang rape is set
free early
MONTREAL -
A man sentenced to four years and two months in prison
after the 2005 gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in a St.
Michel park is free to walk this city's streets this
morning. Guards ushered Andy Virgile, 21, out of the
Montreal Detention Centre late Thursday, after the
Quebec Court of Appeal ordered his immediate release.
(Montreal Gazette)
Leone is 'inherently dangerous'
WINDSOR - Convicted sex
offender
Carl Leone
represents a "real and present danger" and should be
incarcerated indefinitely, assistant Crown attorney Tim
Kavanagh told Windsor Superior Court Justice Joseph
Quinn. (Windsor Star)
Woman sues for $600,000
MONTREAL - A woman who was sexually abused for years by
her mother's boyfriend is suing the man for $600,000 in
damages after the criminal courts handed him a
conditional sentence.
(Montreal Gazette)
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Serial rapist released without rehab
CALGARY - Keegan Troy Spearchief, 22, was released
from jail after serving four years for multiple violent
sexual assaults and break and enter, prompting police to
issue a warning to women. (Calgary Herald)
Nunatsiavut
president charged
Police have charged the president of the self-governed
Inuit region of
Nunatsiavut
in
Labrador with sexual assault. William Andersen III took
a paid leave of absence in November from his role as
president of the
Nunatsiavut Assembly.
At the time, he cited personal reasons for the leave.
Andersen faces a charge of sexually assaulting a
25-year-old woman. (CBC) MORE:
RCMP lay sex charge against
Inuit leader
’Honour’ crime underestimated
LONDON - The true extent of so-called "honour" crime is
being underestimated by the government, the Centre for
Social Cohesion think-tank claims. Based on some 80
interviews, its report says forced marriage,
imprisonment and "honour" killings are not restricted to
first generation immigrant families. (BBC)
PREVIOUS:
Crimes of the Community
'Honour'
crimes bring nothing but shame
College fights prof's return
CALGARY - An arbitration panel has ruled a Lethbridge
College professor dismissed for having sex with his
students should be reinstated, but the college doesn't
want him back. (Calgary Herald)
Vicious rape like slasher 'movie'
EDMONTON - There was a moment during the two-hour rape
when Ryan Huppie's victim believed she was about to
die. He was enraged that she had tried to call 911 and
he leapt at her with a knife. She held her hands up to
protect herself and he severed two of her fingers,
slashed her face and cut her throat. (Edmonton Journal)
Deportation may not stop offender
VANCOUVER - A wanted US sex offender with a 30-year
history of violent and sexual crimes is facing
deportation this week -- his fourth order in five
years. But British Columbians who have followed the
case for years fear Denver Todd Carnes could end up in
Canada again. (Vancouver Province) MORE:
Carnes' rap sheet and
timeline
Labelling dilemma
OTTAWA -
This fall, a Carleton University graduate student needed
to clear the record. Widely published reports had
described how a man entered the science lab where she
was working late one night, snapped her jaw, removed her
clothes and sexually assaulted her. Several stories
incorrectly claimed she was raped. Concerned that the
word might stigmatize her and hinder her chances of
marriage, the 23-year-old Muslim let it be known that
there was no penetration during this brutal incident.
But if it was not rape, what was it? (National Post)
Ex-cop charged
VANCOUVER - Robert Gordon
Bodkin, a former Mountie, Vancouver police officer and
longtime Coast Mountain Bus transit supervisor is facing
sex-crime charges dating back to the 1970s. (Vancouver
Province)
Schoolboys charged
TORONTO - Police have charged eight boys with the
alleged sexual assault of four 13-year-old girls at a
Rexdale school, dispute allegations from the parents of
the accused that the children were just playing around.
(National Post) MORE:
8 boys charged with sex
assault
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Dance teacher guilty of sex charges
VANCOUVER - A BC judge
shredded the testimony of tap-dance teacher Van "The
Man" Porter, finding he lied on the stand and lacked any
credibility as a witness before finding him guilty
yesterday of six counts of sexual misconduct against
three former teenage students. (Vancouver Province) |
'Marpole Rapist' released despite
indefinite sentence
VANCOUVER - A man deemed
a dangerous sexual offender and sentenced to an
indefinite jail term 13 years ago is out on parole and
living in Vancouver. Gary Jagur Singh, the Marpole
Rapist, was arrested in 1991 after a three-year string
of sex assaults. (Vancouver Province)
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Ten worst countries for women
For many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our
planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As
International Women's
Day
is celebrated they continue to feel the
age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation,
enforced ignorance and discrimination. (Toronto Star) |
Afghan women call for
peace, equality
Licence to lie for
Italian women
Canada's women must
share their success with the world
Ontario short changing
women |
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11 women drugged at party
VANCOUVER - The
women who were drugged were at a Beta Theta Pi
Fraternity party on Sept. 21. Stephanie Ataliotis said
the men in the fraternity, for University of BC
students, have been supportive in trying to find out
who's behind the drugging. (Vancouver Province) |
Vancouver 'testing ground'
VANCOUVER - Plans are afoot to open Canada's first
co-operative brothel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
"Vancouver is a testing ground for these sorts of
things," said Susan Davis, spokeswoman for Prostitution
Alternatives Counselling and Education. (Province) |
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Conditions imposed on sex offender
VANCOUVER - A provincial court judge in Abbotsford has
imposed strict conditions on a high-risk sex offender
just released from prison. (Vancouver Province)
PREVIOUS:
Watchful eye
PEI
rapist arrested at Vancouver airport |
Serial rapist may be active in BC
KELOWNA - Police in Kelowna, BC believe a serial rapist
may be active in the area, after several women were
sexually assaulted -- the latest victim a 15-year-old
girl. (CTV) MORE:
New warning from RCMP after
sex attack |
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Madam says Senator used her brothel
NEW ORLEANS - New allegations tie Senator
David Vitter
to a high-priced brothel in his hometown, one day after
he publicly apologized for his connection to an alleged
prostitution ring in Washington, DC. (AP) PREVIOUS:
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah
Jeane Palfrey's website
Senator apologizes DC
madam can peddle 'call' list |
Offender off national registry
NANAIMO - A former Vancouver Island doctor who served a
four-year jail term for sexually assaulting patients has
had his name removed from the national sex offender
registry. The 63-year-old man, identified only as "S",
successfully argued in BC Supreme Court that keeping his
name on the registry for the minimum 20-year period is a
significant violation of his privacy. (CP)
JUDGMENT:
R. v. S. (M.W.) 2007 BCSC
1188 |
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Police seek more details
VANCOUVER - Vancouver police issued a public appeal
Wednesday for more information about a man accused of
sexually assaulting four women after allegedly slipping
a
date-rape drug
in their drinks. .(Vancouver Sun) |
Early deviant behaviours linked to sex
abuse: study
VANCOUVER - A study of more than 500 repeat sex
offenders in BC has discovered two types of early-life
behaviour that leads to repeat sexual abuse.
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2nd York rape suspect in court
TORONTO - A second man charged in the sexual assaults on
two women at York University has been remanded in
custody until tomorrow. (Toronto Star)
PREVIOUS:
Suspect arrested in York
U sex assaults
Sex assaults in
dormitory rattle York University |
Gas station employee raped
LANGLEY - A woman working alone at a Langley gas station
in the middle of the night was sexually assaulted after
letting a young man in to use the washroom. The woman,
in her late 40s, was working in a locked Husky station
at 200th Street and Willowbrook Drive. (Province) |
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Cop by day, rapist by night
MONTREAL - Benoit Guay led two very different lives. In
the one everyone close to him knew about, he was a
13-year veteran of the Montreal police, working
undercover for a surveillance unit and married to a
fellow officer. In the other, which he kept secret, he
drove around the streets of Laval and St. Jerome late at
night, looking for young women and girls he would
sexually assault. (Montreal Gazette) |
Lawyer charged with sex crimes
HAMILTON - A Hamilton lawyer who specializes in
defending youths has been charged with sex crimes
against two of his teenage male clients. A
strained-looking Tom Martin, 43, was led into a bail
court prisoner's dock charged with one count of sexual
assault and two counts of sexual exploitation.
(Hamilton Spectator) RELATED:
Rabbi, synagogue sued
over seduction scandal
Coach
pleads not guilty to sexually exploiting |
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Rape trial gets national attention
OMAHA, Neb.
- A
Lincoln woman plans to testify this week as the victim
of an alleged sexual assault. But the judge has banned
her from using the words "rape" and "sexual assault." (KETV) |
Rape victim recalls horror in court
MELFORT - The alleged
victim in a sexual assault trial wailed loudly and
covered her face when the Crown prosecutor on Tuesday
presented her clothes from the night three men allegedly
attacked her. (Star Phoenix) |
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Sex offenders younger, more violent,
study says
STOCKTON, Calif. - Courts have seen the number of
sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise
dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review
of national statistics found, and treatment
professionals say the offenders are getting younger and
the crimes more violent. (AP) |
Women patients wait for answers
EDMONTON - Jenny had never met a doctor as caring and
attentive as Edmonton whiplash specialist Robert
Ferrari. During his first assessment, he commented on
her extraordinary level of fitness and suggested they
get together to pursue their mutual interest in running.
(Edmonton Journal) RELATED:
Righting a 'nightmare'
system |
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Outrage grows over Katsav deal
JERUSALEM - In what was a palpable atmosphere of outrage
and combative determination, some 20,000 people piled
into Kikar Rabin on Saturday night to protest the plea
bargain reached Thursday between the state and President
Moshe Katsav.
(Jerusalem Post) PREVIOUS:
Plead deal for Israeli
president challenged
Guilty plea keeps
Israeli president out of jail
Katsav
hands in resignation after accepting plea bargain |
Getting away with murder
They call it
femicide.
"It's the fashion here to murder women," says a man in
Killer's Paradise.
More than 600
Guatemalan
women a year are murdered. The figures have quadrupled
in the last five years, while the murder rate among men
has remained constant. Since January, 102 women and
girls have been killed, among them a 7-year-old who was
raped and beheaded. (Toronto Star) RELATED:
Rape for Darfur women
Test
snares rapists without sperm |
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Delays halt sex charges
VICTORIA - Four sex
charges against a lawyer, once employed as a Crown
prosecutor, have been stayed because of court delays.
(Victoria Times Colonist) |
Man deemed dangerous
offender
EDMONTON - The Crown has won its bid to have Eugene
Francis declared a dangerous offender for a series of
increasingly brutal attacks on women. (Edmonton Journal) |
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BC mayor steps down
VANCOUVER - Port Coquitlam Mayor
Scott Young
says he is taking sick leave for alcoholism treatment,
meaning he will continue earning income while he's
investigated for an alleged assault at an
ex-girlfriend's home. (CTV) |
Jail guards charged
CALGARY - Two corrections officers from the Calgary
Remand Centre have been fired and are facing criminal
charges after a reported sexual assault against a fellow
guard last month. (Calgary Herald) |
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Date rape drug kills student
VICTORIA - Zoe Read died at Royal Jubilee Hospital on
March 13 after accidentally overdosing on gamma
hydroxybutyrate, commonly known as
GHB,
at a party three days earlier. (CanWest) |
Former CFL player convicted of sexual
assault
Former BC Lions linebacker Keith Franklin
has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at
knifepoint in her Vancouver high-rise. (Province)
Franklin jailed again |
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Rapist had no drug tests
VANCOUVER - A serial rapist on parole who attacked five
Lower Mainland women during a nine-day crime binge was
never tested for drugs by his parole officer -- despite
the fact drug and alcohol use was a key factor in most
of his past crimes. (Vancouver Sun) |
66 sex criminals let loose in BC
VANCOUVER - A total of 66
sex offenders considered too dangerous to be paroled
have been released from B.C. prisons over the past five
years -- a rate of more than one a month, according to
statistics provided by the Correctional Service of
Canada. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Man writes woman he raped
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - William Beebe had been haunted by
that night for years. He'd tried to send the letter
before - and failed. Just like he'd failed to stick
with Alcoholics Anonymous. Just like he'd failed
at so much in life. (Fox) |
51 slaps for accused rapist
LUCKNOW, India - A man in northern India will be
publicly slapped 51 times as punishment after village
elders found him guilty of raping a neighbor who is deaf
and mute, a village chief said Friday. (AP) |
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More Groper victims
VANCOUVER - Two more victims of a serial groper who is
preying on women in Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam
have come forward. That makes 27 women attacked since
January last year. (Province) PREVIOUS:
Serial groper eludes police |
Ex-Israeli official convicted
JERUSALEM - Former Israeli Justice Minister
Haim Ramon
was convicted Wednesday of kissing a young female
soldier against her will — a case that riveted the
country's attention and added another layer of scandal
to Israel's beleaguered leadership. (CBS/AP) |
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Charges dropped against
victim
The case of an Iranian girl sentenced to death for
killing a man who attempted to rape her has had a happy
ending: the charges have been dropped.
(CTV)
Save
Nazanin Google pages |
Rape victim faces lashing
Canadian helps save Iranian woman's life
Beauty queen backs condemned teen
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi |
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Rural sex trade gets violent
Crowbars and knives are
some of the weapons used against sex workers in rural
and small-town BC, according to a report that calls
for more social services to protect prostitutes from
increasingly violent attacks by pimps and customers.
(Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Girls lured to sex parties
in West Shore |
Private dicks paid to have sex
SYDNEY
- Private detectives in Sydney have been paid to have
sex with prostitutes by city officials. The men were
paid through official channels to do the deed so as to
give evidence in court cases aimed at closing down
brothels. (WGHP) PREVIOUS:
Councils pay for brothel sex |
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Dethroned beauty hangs her head
MIAMI -
Katie Rees
the former Miss Nevada USA,
dethroned over raunchy photos posted online, apologized
yesterday as her lawyer pleaded for the pageant queen to
be given a second chance. (AP) MORE:
Photos that stripped Miss
Nevada of her title |
Rapist faces new charge after
controversial parole
VANCOUVER - A convicted
rapist accused of sexually assaulting an 89-year-old
Nanaimo woman while on parole was released from jail by
a BC parole board that was not fully informed of his
violent sexual past. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Rapist's cases faces review
VANCOUVER - Nearly 24 years after he was deemed a
dangerous offender and sentenced to spend the rest of
his life behind bars, new evidence has surfaced that
could overturn the serial-rape conviction of Ivan
Henry. (Vancouver Province) |
Sikh priests face sex charges: temple in
uproar
WINNIPEG - Members of a small Sikh temple are dismayed
after charges of sexual misconduct were laid by police
against three of its priests. (Winnipeg Free Press)
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Sikh Priests arrested |
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Stalker back on the streets
REGINA
- The 59-year-old served three years in prison for
charges arising out of his lengthy fixation with Cathy
Kaip, a Regina woman he stalked for more than 30 years.
(Leader-Post) |
TO
police seek victims of HIV positive man
TORONTO
- Investigators believe Vincent Walkem, 28, deliberately
hid or lied about his condition to other women.
(CTV)
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'A tragic rush to accuse'
WASHINGTON -
They were accused of a brutal sex crime that reopened
centuries- old racial divisions in the American South --
a group of privileged white college boys who allegedly
gang-raped a black stripper at a late-night frat house
party. (CanWest)
2006 Duke University
lacrosse team scandal |
Expert admits "Big Error" in Duke case
Duke charges dropped
Midnight blogger exposes a
scandal
Duke players get their
reputation back
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